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Page 124
I could have beaten my head against the wall and howled, to think she'd get off at
Simbirsk and I'd be stuck on board with my bloody broken heart. But there were
still two days before Simbirsk, so I counted the hours and hung on. I gave her the
...
I could have beaten my head against the wall and howled, to think she'd get off at
Simbirsk and I'd be stuck on board with my bloody broken heart. But there were
still two days before Simbirsk, so I counted the hours and hung on. I gave her the
...
Page 154
And if a single one comes back alive, you'll pay for it with your head.' 'Yes,
Comrade Commander,' said the officer, in the same dejected voice. Glancing at
us illiterates, Antoshchenko slipped his sword back into its scabbard. 'I don't want
to ...
And if a single one comes back alive, you'll pay for it with your head.' 'Yes,
Comrade Commander,' said the officer, in the same dejected voice. Glancing at
us illiterates, Antoshchenko slipped his sword back into its scabbard. 'I don't want
to ...
Page 157
Its existence seemed a fantasy, a nightmare. At any moment, Antoshchenko
could shoot any one of us down. Each man's life hung on what he might take it
into his head to do next. Every day, we waited for some new, humiliating scene,
and he ...
Its existence seemed a fantasy, a nightmare. At any moment, Antoshchenko
could shoot any one of us down. Each man's life hung on what he might take it
into his head to do next. Every day, we waited for some new, humiliating scene,
and he ...
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Contents
Whirlpool page | 7 |
Blue Torches | 23 |
The Journalists Cafe | 36 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Story of a Life: In that dawn Volume 3 of The Story of a Life, Konstantin Paustovsky |
| Author | Konstantin Paustovsky |
| Publisher | Pantheon Books, 1967 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 18 Apr 2008 |
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